LYNCHING: New Gentry

Long years ago, there were in the South two "mountains of conceit" with a
"valley of humility" in between. The mountains were Virginia and South
Carolina; the valley was North Carolina.

Now, North Carolina has risen into a mountain of industrial pride, where
cotton is transformed into sheets and pillowcases, where tobacco is
fed into billions of cigaret papers, where skyscrapers in Winston-Salem
and Greensboro grow fast. Virginia retains much of its old
aristocracy. Industry progresses along with female academies. South
Carolina seems to have become the "valley." Charleston, which many
times...